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Book Review: Jigglyspot and the Zero Intellect by PD Alleva
It’s 2019, and Jigglyspot has got the important job of organizing the Summer Solstice celebrations for his employers. When you’re a half warlock carnival clown who works for demonic flesh eating entities from another dimension, you’ve got your work cut out for you (or should that be you have to cut up your work?). They…
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Book Review: Golem by PD Alleva
In Long Island, bored socialite Annette grows stronger in her hatred of humanity, while in New York newly minted police detective John Ashton is tasked with searching for the new D.A’s missing daughter. The case leads him to a mental hospital, and Alena, where he hears a dark tale that’s too disturbing to be true. …
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Book Review: Hot Springs Homicide by Nikki Haverstock
Brooke, a mermaid living in the magical town of Purgatory Falls, is helping out with the annual Founders’ Week celebrations when a search for a missing bracelet leads to a dead body. With a murderer to catch, and a treasure to find, Brooke discovers she has a deeper connection to her new home than she…
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Book Review: Hannah and Other Stories by Rami Ungar
Along with the titular story, “Hannah”, this collection from the Master of Fear comprises 5 other short stories and a novelette. The first story, “Hannah”, is a ghost story involving two friends with a lucrative internet ghost hunting channel. I liked the characters and the way they worked with spirits. Next up is “Queen Alice”,…
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The Write Reads Blog Tour: Feast of Ashes by Victoria Williamson
About the book The Earth’s ecosystems have collapsed and only ashes remain. Is one girl’s courage enough to keep hope alive in the wastelands? It’s the year 2123, and sixteen-year-old Adina has just accidentally killed fourteen thousand seven hundred and fifty-six people. Raised in the eco-bubble of Eden Five, Adina has always believed that the…
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The Write Reads Blog Tour: The Whistlers in the Dark by Victoria Williamson
About the Book Scotland, 158 AD, is a divided country. On one side of the Antonine Wall, thirteen-year-old Felix is trying to become a good Roman soldier like his father. On the other, twelve-year old Jinny is vowing revenge on the ‘metal men’ who have invaded her Damnonii tribe’s homeland. At the Damnonii’s sacred circle…
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Book Review: The Ungodly Duology by SH Cooper
After the death of her mother, thirty year old Faith York is thrown back into a nightmare she’d rather forget, a horror story that started when her father was pulled into a hole in the ground by a woman with too many arms when Faith was just a child. Faith’s search for answers leads her…
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Book Review: The Promise of Plague Wolves by Coy Hall
Set in Austria in 1686, Dorian Toth, a brother of the Order of Saint Guinefort, is tasked by Bishop von Thun to investigate strange reports coming out of the small village of Drunstall. Nestled in the beautiful Styrian woods, the village is quarantined for plague. However, the dead don’t seem to be staying dead. The…
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The Write Reads Blog Tour: Scare Ground by Angela Kecojevic
About the book Roll up, roll up, the Scareground is in town! Twelve-year-old Nancy Crumpet lives above a bakery and her life is a delightful mix of flour, salt, and love. Yet her mind is brimming with questions no one can answer: Why did her birth parents disappear? Why can she speak with the sky?…
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Coffee and Thorn Book Tour: Wolf Weather by Miles Watson
About the Book Imagine if you had lived a life of cruel discipline from the time you were a child, and were constantly called upon to do battle for an emperor you had never seen. Now imagine that emperor orders you far off the map, into a frozen land where the sun never shines and…
